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A Game of Cards. Partie de cartes. Corneilius Krieghoff, LAC C-011003, 1848
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Activities at a Clallam Mat Lodge Village near Fort Victoria, John Linton Palmer, 1851, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Faro by J. D. Borthwick, 1851, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Yankee Notions, New York, 1852
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Devil seated at a gambling table, satirical print, 1860 to 1870, British Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Gambling and Cree Indians celebrating a Dog Feast. Rupert's Land 13 Sept. '57. Jeu et Indiens cris à un festin de chien. Terre de Rupert, 13 septembre 1857. George Seton, LAC Acc. No. 1950-63-1.9R, 17 April 1862
"These fools [gold rush miners] . . . have learnt that the chances are always so thoroughly in favour of the gaming-house proprietors that the loss of the gambler's money and the gain of the gaming-house proprietor is only a question of time… a man might as well chuck is gold back into the creek as pitch it on the gaming table; gaming is the miners' curse all the world over… Professional gamblers track the successful miner as the carrion crow scents the dead on a battlefield."
Cariboo The Newly Discovered Gold Fields of British Columbia, 1862
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L'opinion publique journal illustré, Montréal, 3 November 1881
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Slim Jim, or The Parson Takes the Pot, Rowland Lee, BC Archives PDP02292, 1892
"Slim Jim a noted gambler is represented in the painting, in the garb of a parson, one of his favourite disguises. With his usual good luck he takes the pot."
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Albert Guillaume,1890s?, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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THE UNWILLING CONFEDERATE
Congress ought to take Uncle Sam out of this shameful position by passing the anti-lottery bill.
Judge, New York, 23 August 1890, Wikimedia Commons
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EVICTING THE GAMBLERS.
When Montreal is rid of its "gamblers," Le Canard will point out other thieves to kick out.
Le canard, Montréal, 13 May 1899
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Life, New York, 3 December 1908
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The start of the race, Kelowna, British Columbia.G.H.E. Hudson, LAC PA-029614, 1909
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Sunday laws in force in Ontario, Toronto Reference Library 1911. Sunday Laws. 5, 1911
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The British Columbia Federationist, Vancouver, 10 July 1914
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Gambling, Hy Myer, Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-28085, 12 September 1914
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Horse races on Main Street in Lillooet, VPL 20708, 1 July 1919
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New York World, reprinted Cartoons magazine, Chicago, October 1920
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New Masses, New York, September 1928
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Timbrell, [Ed Broadbent NDP, Joe Clarke Conservative, Pierre Trudeau Liberal]. McGill Daily, Montreal, 31 January 1980
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George Shane, 1989?, LAC
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The Lance, Windsor, 25 October 1993
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"From the moment a government encourages its citizens to finance the state by gambling¬¬––instead of through creativity, work and productivity, that state is in an unacknowledged crisis."
John Ralston Saul, The Daughter's Companion.
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